Author Archives : janeharr


john rawlings (1912-1970): fashion photographer extraordinaire (and american, too!)

My new favorite fashion photographer is John Rawlings, whose work I was only tangentially aware of before coming across this book of his work for Vogue where you can find additional images. Here’s another link to a lot of black-and-whites, including portraits of famous friends (Irving Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, both obvious influences). Some of the […]


Once the fence was where I wanted it

If you’re good, be bold. I play with a guy who deliberately rips the right shooting arm sleeve off his T shirts, or rolls it up to his shoulder. Totally badass. “What’s upsetting is individuals from all over the country are buying Colts memorabilia and it’s leaving Maryland,” said Urban. “To me, that’s sad. From […]


acid dreams: animated hallucinations on film and in cartoons

It was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer trips on a “Guatemalan pepper” that made me want to gather cartoon depictions of drug hallucinations. Of course that clip – like many – is unavailable online (outside a bad 15 second fragment). Still, animation seemed to me the perfect medium to conjure the phantasmagoric, wonky […]